Sharing/publishing the best longform stories (#longreads) since 2009. Sister site of @Atavist. Mastodon: @longreads@mastodon.world. Bluesky: @longreads.com
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"Modern food delivery promises to make any food into something you can eat at home. But not every dish, and not every restaurant, is built for this."
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This was a good read ...
A Place Among the Fiddlers longreads.com/2026/10/01/gal… via @longreads
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The Price of Convenience
We might pay more to have restaurant food delivered colder, soggier, and later than if we picked it up ourselves.
How we came to accept that trade-off reveals a much bigger story about our pursuit of convenience.
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We asked the staff at the JFK Presidential Library if we could park the motorhome in their lot overnight. They said yes, then locked the gate behind us for the night.
Nobody had a policy for that. Someone had a key and decided yes.
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In 1997 we presented our journy to 400 educators at a U.S. Dept of Education conference in Chicago. The paper is still in the federal ERIC database.
We thought we were describing the future of education. We were describing a year that couldn't happen now. longreads.com/2026/09/22/fam…
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Eating Alone - Soggy fries, ghost kitchens, and a $19 bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich: what we’ve actually gained on the path to convenience.
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It's still online. The homepage still links to AltaVista, HotBot, and WebCrawler.
"We were doing something that had no name and no manual, and we were doing it over a dial-up modem while living in a motorhome."
@Mark_Blondin and Betsy Blondin launched a family travel blog in 1996 on an internet that no longer exists.
They reflect on that journey—and what we’ve lost—in this week's @longreads essay: longreads.com/2026/09/22/fam…
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October 4, 1996: three kids, a golden retriever, and a desktop computer bolted to the floor of a motorhome. Five miles out of town, the engine quit.
Betsy and I wrote about the 25,000 miles after that for @Longreads.
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What we settle for in the name of convenience
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Takedown on the nonsense lives we live
Excerpt from "Against Convenience: Embracing Friction in an Age of Endless Ease" by Gabe Bullard
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Shetland's Most Wanted makes the latest @Longreads Top 5 alongside stories of payday loan apps, playtime, and ostriches.
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Black and Blue in Cleveland
Both of Wilbert L. Cooper’s parents were cops. In this excerpt from his memoir, Cooper recounts how his mother got into the force—and what the department did to try to keep her out.
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A black cop in Cleveland.
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The Grate Cheese Robbery longreads.com/2026/05/28/the… via @longreads As a Wisconsin native, cheese is dear to my heart. Great read
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Had so much fun writing this piece for @Longreads about Madonna, Cyndi, Grace, Whitney, Joan and the other female musicians in the 80s who inspired me. I like research that involves rewatching Madonna's iconic "Like a Virgin" opening number at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards.
"Video might have killed the radio star, but it ignited something in me. I felt rebellious and wanted to raise a lace-glove-clad middle finger to anyone who told me I had to fit in—boys, teachers, mean girls, or my boss at Taco Time." @nerdygirly
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Wilbert L. Cooper’s new memoir, The Black Shield, tells two intertwining stories: the history of the city’s Black Shield Police Association, and the multigenerational narrative of his own family, embedded in the police force. longreads.com/2026/08/25/the… via @longreads
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The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad longreads.com/2026/08/04/psy…
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a nice long read on the mystery of psychoactive (magical) toads.
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“ To be alive is to live in an alive world. But to live in an alive world requires that we can perceive the Other as alive, that it registers to us as something with its own presence.” - @the_jennitaur for @Longreads longreads.com/2026/06/02/jen…
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Friction: A Reading List on Why Inconvenience Can Be Meaningful longreads.com/2026/06/09/fri… via @longreads
